Say Simple

Say Simple is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by kharmanskyi in open-steps.

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Install Say Simple

Copy Say Simple into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps/tree/main/skills/os-say-simple ~/.claude/skills/os-say-simple

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/os-say-simple/SKILL.md in kharmanskyi/open-steps
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/os-say-simple
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Say Simple does

Say Simple rewrites text in simpler words without changing the facts. Use it when a user asks for a shorter explanation, plain words, or a restatement of text.

Say Simple is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Say Simple comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

os-say-simple

A text exists and the user cannot use it. This skill rewrites it into words they can act on - the pack's rescue skill: the others fire at moments of work, this one whenever any text, including your own, needs saying again properly. It changes only the words. Never the facts.

Language

Write in the language the user speaks in this session. Detect it from the conversation. Keep code, file names and identifiers in English.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Say Simple

What else does kharmanskyi publish alongside Say Simple?
Say Simple is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kharmanskyi/open-steps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Simple, Check Work and Done Or Not. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Say Simple does, and is maintained by kharmanskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kharmanskyi/open-steps page.
How does Say Simple compare to other Writing skills?
Say Simple ranks #956 by stars among the 1227 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Say Simple against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.